Description

Many bloggers use a similar format for each of their posts. WordPress doesn’t provide a native way to pre-fill your new posts with default content. This plugin provides the simplest solution to this problem. It takes 5 minutes to install and setup. The templates allows you to define a title, post body, and even an excerpt.

Sacre bleu! A change in the way WordPress handles plugin updates 3 major releases ago prevented upgrades from 1.x to 2.x from working. This should be fixed with this release. So sorry for the confusion!

Version 2.0.3:

Fixed bug where HTML in templates messed up templates layout.

Fixed bug with 1.x to 2.x migration script. Previous versions did not work at all.

It worked fine (but not perfect — accepting the template reloads the editor and creates totally new post; if you enter the title before you accept it…you’ll have to do it againg). But then…
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1. Update to 2.1 deleted all templates without warning.
2. Update to 2.1.1 made the site crash with php 500 error.
I don’t recommend to use it.
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Update — fixed fast, works well. Thanks to the developer.

Edit (4/10/17)
Based on the company’s responsiveness, I am editing my previous review. The company was able to fix the code and push out an update within a day of identifying the problem. This is a very handy tool that allows you to create your own post and page templates, with a dropdown menu to select which one you want to use upon creating a new page or post. I would like to see a way to not have the category default to “Uncategorized”.

Previous Review
Previous update from a few weeks ago deleted my templates and took away some of the functionality. The most recent template from this weekend caused a fatal error and my site can no longer be accessed. This is pretty unacceptable. I’m going to follow a previous comment and see if I can restore my site. Unbelievable!

I began using this plugin as a replacement for an older, similar plugin that hadn’t been updated in forever, and while there have been a couple of issues, the plugin creator is pretty impressive with his response time, and those issues remain resolved. They’ve also made some changes with the latest updates that seem to have fixed two things in the plugin that didn’t take away from the functionality and usefulness but proved to be very irritating. They’re definitely listening to their customers, even those of us who don’t have a need for the premium version. That alone is worth 5 stars.